Global law firm Proskauer announced today that Sandra Matrick Forman is joining the firm as a senior counsel in the New York office, effective July 1. Ms. Forman joins Proskauer’s significant business development companies (BDCs) team, which advises BDCs on transactional, financing and regulatory matters across its Capital...

UBIC, Inc. (Nasdaq:UBIC), a leading provider of international litigation support and big-data analysis services, announced today that it has been engaged to provide training to law enforcement investigators in Japan on the use of its Lit i View(R) XAMINER software, a state-of-the-art digital forensic tool used by law enforcement to identify and...

Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. maintains its high rankings in the newly released 2014 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, published by Chambers & Partners. On the national level, the firm’s Retail Practice is highlighted along with eight practices in New Jersey. Twenty-four firm attorneys are...

Human Resource Executive® magazine has featured John C. Romeo, a director in the Employment & Labor Law Department at Gibbons P.C., on its list of the “Nation’s Most Powerful Employment Attorneys,” in the “Up-and-Comers” category.

Akin Gump is pleased to announce it has again been named to The American Lawyer’s A-List, the publication’s annual ranking of the country’s 20 leading law firms. This is the second time in three years that the firm has been named to this prestigious list.
The A-List was created in 2003 to assess the overall quality of the nation...

David E. Bronston, special counsel with Phillips Lytle LLP, will serve as a panelist on the topic, “Small Cells, Big Deal,” at NATE’S Tower Business Symposium, part of the Above Ground Level (AGL) media group’s conference series, on June 19, 2014. The event will be held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center,...

Gibbons P.C. has placed ninth in the “Best Places to Work in New Jersey” rankings by NJBIZ, the premier weekly newspaper covering business in New Jersey. This is the ninth year in a row Gibbons has been ranked one of the best places to work in the state in the “large-company” (250-plus employees) category. The awards were presented...

Global law firm Proskauer announced today that Robert J. Kafin has been elected as chair of the Times Square Alliance. Mr. Kafin is an environmental partner and the firm’s former chief operating partner and general counsel.

Fish & Richardson IP litigator Juanita Brooks has received two prestigious awards from the Daily Journal, one of California’s leading legal publications. In late April, she was named one of California’s top intellectual property attorneys and in May she was named a top woman attorney in California.

King & Spalding has recruited Drew G.L. Chapman as a partner in the financial institutions practice in its New York office. Mr. Chapman joins King & Spalding from WilmerHale, where he was head of the alternative investment group. Mr. Chapman is the seventh financial institutions partner the firm has added in the past eight months.

McCarter & English has been named litigation department of the year in the products liability category by a prominent publication that covers the legal profession.
The New Jersey Law Journal ranked as tops in the state McCarter’s Products Liability Practice Group, which represents clients in all phases of products matters – from risk...

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP is pleased to announce that Mark Robeck has joined the firm’s energy practice as a partner in the Washington, DC office. With nearly 25 years of experience in the energy sector, Mr. Robeck joins Kelley Drye from Baker Botts, where he served as co-chair of that firm’s energy litigation practice group.

Akin Gump is pleased to announce that Nathan A. Brown, former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lawyer and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee advisor, has joined the firm as a health care and life sciences partner in the firm’s Washington, DC office.

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance is advising Mondelez International on an agreement announced on May 7 that will see Mondelez International and D.E. Master Blenders 1753 B.V. combine their respective coffee businesses to create the world's leading pure-play coffee company, with annual revenues in excess of US$7 billion (€5 billion...

UBIC, Inc., a leading provider of international litigation support and big-data analysis services, has announced the commercial introduction of Lit i View(r) ANALYZER, a digital forensic tool designed specifically to help U.S. investigative and law enforcement agencies. UBIC will introduce this powerful tool in the U.S. on June 1.